Filing cabinet



R. W. TURNER May 23, 1933.

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Patented May 23, 1933 PATENT OFFICE ROBERT W. TURNER, OF DETROIT,MICHIGAN FILING CABINET Application filed. April 6,

My invention relates to a new and useful improvement in a filing cabinetand has for its object the provision of a filing cabinet in which amaximum depth of drawer or container may be provided in a casingpossessing a minimum depth.

Another object of the invention is the provision in a filing cabinet ofa plurality of filing drawers supported in a supporting frame inoverlapping relation and throughout the major portion of their bodyinclined to the casing and arranged with their outer ends in such amanner as to form a planal front for the casing.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a filing cabinetwhich is comact.

P Other objects will appear hereinafter.

The invention consists in the combination and arrangement of partshereinafter dein which,

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the in- Vention.

Fig. 2 is a sectional view taken on line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a Viewtaken on line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of one of the drawers. 3 Fig. 5 is afragmentary sectional View of r the supporting casing.

I provide a supporting frame or casing embodying the side walls 8 and 9connected with the bottom walls 10 and 11 and supporting the back 12.Mounted on the inner surface of each of the side walls 8 and 9 inclinedto the longitudinal length thereof and in spaced relation are the guidestrips 13. The filing drawers consist of the front wall 14 having itsupper end 15 angularly turned. Projecting outwardly in spaced relationfrom the inner surface of this front wall at opposite sides thereof andinwardly from the marginal edges of the front wall are the drawer sidewalls 16 connected at their lower or inner ends by the plate 17 andSerial No. 528,057.

the bottom 18, thus providing a compartment in which papers and othersimilar articles may repose.

In use, the drawers are slid into the supporting frame as illustrated,the portion 1 serving as flanges which engage the upper surface of theguide strips 13 and the bottom 18 engaging the supporting rails 20 whichare mounted on the rear wall 12. As clearly appears in the drawing,these drawers when mounted in the frame are projected inwardly of theframe diagonally thereto in overlapping relation to each other, and theangularly turned portion 15 of the front wall of the drawers serves toform a front 6 for the filing cabinet thus formed, this front beingsubstantially a planal one, the main portion of the wall 14 terminatingand the portion 15 beginning at the edge'of the portion 15 of the nextlower drawer.

By constructing a filing cabinet in this manner, the depth of thesupporting frame is reduced to a minimum and the length of the drawersin which the papers or documents are filed may be as desired.

It is obvious that in order to mount drawers of various lengths in asupporting frame, the inclination of the guide strips 13 vary. It isalso believed obvious that the structure is one which is quite compact.

In Fig. 1 I have illustrated a section of a filing cabinet constructedso as to embody the invention, and it is believed obvious that thesupporting frames may be of various sizes and that the same may beplaced along side of each other to provide such filing space as may benecessary.

\Vhile I have illustrated and described the preferred form ofconstruction of my invention, I do not wish to limit myself to theprecise details of structure shown, but desire to avail myself of suchvariations and modifications as may come within the scope of theappended claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a filing cabinet of the class described, a vertically directedsupporting frame; a plurality of drawers slidably mounted on saidsupporting frame said drawers being inclined downwardly to the verticaland inwardly of the frame and having the outer ends thereof directed toextend in a vertical position.

2. In a filing cabinet of the class described, a vertically directedsupporting frame; aplurality of drawers slidably mounted on saidsupporting frame said drawers being inclined downwardly to the verticaland inwardly of the frame and having the outer ends thereof directed toextend in a vertical position, the outer ends of successive drawersforming a planal front.

A filing cabinetof the class described comprising: a supporting framehaving vertically extending side walls; spaced guide strips on said sidewalls inclined inwardly, downwardly to the vertical; a plurality ofdrawers each slidably mounted on a pair of said guide strips, one of thewalls of said drawers being, atone end, angularly turned to extendvertically while in engagement with said guide strips for forming withthe angularly turned ends of successive drawers a planal front on saidframe.

4. A filing cabinet of the class described comprising: a supportingframe, having vertically extending side walls; guide strips on the innersurface of each of said side walls in spaced relation and projectingdiagonally downwardly; a rear wall on said frame; abutment strips on therear wall of said frame, each in alignment with the inwardly directedends of a pair of guide strips; a drawer slidably mounted on said stripsand engaging at its inner end one of said abutments, one of the walls ofsaid drawers being angular-1y turned to extend, upon engagement of thedrawer with its abutment, parallel to the rear wall and form with thesimilar angular'ly turned end of otherdrawers a planal front for saidframe.

In testimony whereof I have signed the foregoing specification.

ROBERT w. TURNER.

